Table of Contents

1: A New Leadership for Old Problems and Future Challenges; I: Internal Politics; Selected Chronology of Significant Internal Developments and Events March 1985 through June 1987; 2: New Wine in Old (?) Bottles: Leadership and Personnel Changes; 3: To Build a Better Mousetrap: The Economy; 4: Images versus Reality: The Society and the Style; 5: Is the Media the Message? Glasnost and the Arts; II: Foreign Policies; 6: Happy Days Can Be Here Again: Relations with the United States and the Industrialized West; Selected East-West Chronology; 7: Scorpions in a Bottle: Arms Control Policy (Part One); 8: Arms Control Policy (Part Two) Reykjavik and Beyond: The Pendulum Swings; Selected Arms Control Chronology; 9: The Burdens and Benefits of Empire: Relations with Eastern Europe; Selected Soviet-Eastern European Chronology; 10: The “Mongol Hordes”: Relations with the People’s Republic of China; Selected Sino-Soviet Chronology; 11: Winning the Hearts and Minds: Relations with the Third World; Selected Soviet-Third World Chronology, from March 1985 *; III: Military Policies; 12: The Metal Eaters: The Armed Forces and Soviet Military Doctrine; IV: Conclusions; 13: The Emperor’s New Clothes: What the Record Reveals; 14: The Past Is but Prologue: Projections for the Future

About the Author

Ilya Zemtsov was born in the Soviet Union and received advanced degrees in philosophy and sociology from the National Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Since 1973 he has lived in Israel, where he is professor of Russian Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and director of the International Research Center on Contemporary Society (IRCCS). He has published widely on many aspects of Soviet society. John H. Farrar was head of the Department of Strategic Studies, IRCCS, until the summer of 1987. Since completing the book, he has joined the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. During his thirty year career in the U.S. Army, he held a variety of positions on the Department of Army staff, in the Defense Intelligence Agency, and at NATO headquarters.

Reviews

-This is a wide-ranging and most significant study of the interactions between Gorbachev and the Soviet system... This is a well-researched analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union, the options open to Gorbachev, and the limits of potential future developments... This is a very important contribution to Soviet studies for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.- --R. M. Bigler, Choice -Both scholarly and popular.... The coverage is complete (and) the analysis is straightforward and balanced.- --Roger Kanet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -Profound, well researched, without any exaggeration brilliant. This is a very important contribution.- --Yuri Glazov, Dalhousie University -An extremely astute, and indeed, daring analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union and the options open to Gorbachev.- --Mark G. Field, Boston University

"This is a wide-ranging and most significant study of the interactions between Gorbachev and the Soviet system... This is a well-researched analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union, the options open to Gorbachev, and the limits of potential future developments... This is a very important contribution to Soviet studies for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --R. M. Bigler, Choice "Both scholarly and popular.... The coverage is complete (and) the analysis is straightforward and balanced." --Roger Kanet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Profound, well researched, without any exaggeration brilliant. This is a very important contribution." --Yuri Glazov, Dalhousie University "An extremely astute, and indeed, daring analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union and the options open to Gorbachev." --Mark G. Field, Boston University

"This is a wide-ranging and most significant study of the interactions between Gorbachev and the Soviet system... This is a well-researched analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union, the options open to Gorbachev, and the limits of potential future developments... This is a very important contribution to Soviet studies for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --R. M. Bigler, Choice "Both scholarly and popular.... The coverage is complete (and) the analysis is straightforward and balanced." --Roger Kanet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Profound, well researched, without any exaggeration brilliant. This is a very important contribution." --Yuri Glazov, Dalhousie University "An extremely astute, and indeed, daring analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union and the options open to Gorbachev." --Mark G. Field, Boston University

"This is a wide-ranging and most significant study of the interactions between Gorbachev and the Soviet system... This is a well-researched analysis of the dilemmas and problems of the Soviet Union, the options open to Gorbachev, and the limits of potential future developments... This is a very important contribution to Soviet studies for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --R. M. Bigler, Choice